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May 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 17, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Man, I'm watching this stuff they're doing in the Mississippi River, and I grew up on the Mississippi River.
They're opening all of these spillways which are designed to flood small little towns and farms in the hope of saving bigger cities.
Man, what a tough call that's got to be for these engineers.
Up near where I'm from, Cape Girardeau, there's a little town across the river and down south a bit called Cairo, Illinois.
Now, Cairo, Illinois, when I was growing up in the 60s was the site of uh pretty bad race riots and stuff.
I remember I worked at uh I was working in radio that is my second year in 1968.
And uh bunch of network television and radio journalists were in town to report what was going on in Cairo.
Burn in a town fires, and they would come use our radio station to file their stories.
And I got to meet some of these uh network people, and I don't remember much about it.
Um I don't I was so focused, you know, on playing the next hit, uh, that these guys are kind of getting in the way, but it was still a learning opportunity.
I don't remember the names.
I can't remember the names of people that uh that showed up, but I did pick their brains on a number of things.
I do remember how much they hated management.
It's it seemed to be uh a matter of rote.
Wherever I went in broadcasting, people hated management.
These people were sharing, eh?
Don't think the network's such a great place.
You know, here I am, I'm 17 years old.
Don't think it's such a great place.
They're unloading on me about things about the job they don't like and how they're just numbers and they're a dime a dozen to their employers and this kind of thing.
Uh it was it was fascinating.
But anyway, one of these towns that they thought they had to save was Cairo, Illinois, they flooded a bunch of farms on the Missouri side, opening a spillway.
You know, they're doing the same thing in uh Louisiana.
Uh waters are not rising as fast as they thought, but they're still opening these spillways and purposely flooding.
You know, they've okay.
We know somebody's gonna get flooded and have their life destroyed.
Who is it?
And they're always deciding on small gets destroyed.
It seems, seems to me.
I wouldn't want to be the one making the call.
Uh great to have you here, folks.
L. Rushbow behind a golden EIB microphone.
Telephone number if you want to join us, 800-282-2882, and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I want to a couple of sound bites here.
I mentioned last hour talking about this uh IMF guy that is accused of rape, no bail over at Rikers Island.
Nobody's talking about the fact that this guy is a socialist elite.
This is the ruling class of Europe, and they are stunned that this kind of treatment is being handed down to this guy.
Well, Stuart Varney was on the Fox Business Network that he's got a program called Varney and Company.
And uh he said this about Dominique Strauss Kahn.
He's a socialist.
This speaks volumes about the reality of socialism today.
It's all about elitism.
You see, they are so much smarter than us.
From the top down, they know what's best for us.
They know how to command society to be more fair.
Nonsense.
Socialism in Europe has delivered mass unemployment and bankruptcy.
It will do the same here if we let it.
What socialism does is maintain the status quo.
Capitalism upsets the Apple card by rewarding individual talent.
Socialists today are often rich.
Dominic Strauss Kahn stays in $3,000 a night hotel suites and owns lavish homes around the world.
He knows what's best for us.
Yeah, and he's not paying a dime of his own money for any of it.
I mean, we are the IMF, right?
We are the World Bank.
All of these guys live and siphon.
Uh what we do.
And this this hardcore socialist note that this guy more than happy to stay in a $3,000 a night Suite.
Spending other people's money.
A lot of it is American taxpayer money.
You know, at 3,000 bucks, we all almost could excuse the guy for thinking the maid was included.
But I don't know, I just, the guy reminds me, I don't know, that something about this Dominique Strauss Kahn guy reminds me of Pepe LePew.
Everything about this guy reminds me of Pepe Le Pew.
Anyway, Pro Paul Ryan, yesterday, Economic Club of Chicago.
Brief little soundbite here.
To an alarming degree, the budget debate has degenerated into a game of green eye shade arithmetic.
With many in Washington, including the president, demanding that we trade ephemeral spending restraints for large permanent tax increases.
I call this the shared scarcity mentality.
The missing ingredient, of course, is economic growth.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
You got the doomsayers here.
And the latest thing on the debt ceiling is now default deniers.
You heard this.
This is shameless from politico.
They are the newest breed of government skeptics, the swelling ranks of Republicans who don't believe the regime when it says a failure to raise the debt limit will prove catastrophic, and they stand ready to make negotiations over raising the cap on debt as grueling as possible, leaving Treasury officials and Wall Street more nervous than ever that the country could suffer an unprecedented default with consequences no one can predict.
Well, hey, if nobody can predict the consequences, then how are the media, the rest of the Democrat Party so certain they're going to be dire?
If you can't predict it, the suspicion, which once flourished only in the conservative outskirts of economic circles, has seeped into the mainstream in recent weeks, gaining broader acceptance among establishment Republicans, even as the regime issues increasingly dire warnings.
Now, by conservative outskirts of economic circles, the political means the right wing's lunatic fringe.
And this, my friend's a prime example of the left textbook propaganda technique.
This reporter is comparing Republicans who are questioning the need to raise the debt ceiling with Holocaust deniers.
There's actually a new term, just like deniers, global warming deniers, climate change deniers.
You know, connect them, relate them to the Holocaust deniers, now default deniers.
The conservatives on the outskirts of economic circles, who don't believe that default will lead to dire consequences, are now default deniers.
Why is there even a debt limit if it would be catastrophic if it were not raised whenever it suits Congress to raise it?
Were the legislators who originally enacted this back in 1917 when the nation was at war, were they also like Holocaust deniers in their refusal to see what havoc they were wreaking?
I mean, if you're gonna if you're gonna establish a debt limit, you are by definition establishing uh oh, a period where it can all fall apart if the limit is exceeded.
Were Obama and Harry Reed, Nancy Pelosi, almost every other Democrat in Congress acting like Holocaust deniers when they voted against raising a debt limit back in 2006.
Remember Obama voted against they all campaigned.
They all ran against raising a debt limit because back in 2006, their campaign playbook mandated that Republicans be called irresponsible profligate spenders.
They were all suggesting we not raise the debt limit.
I don't recall one media person criticizing them, calling them debt deniers, default deniers.
I don't recall the media chastising them at all for this.
Okay, well, let me just say something.
Folks, IL Rushbow raised both hands.
I am the Mr. Big of the default deniers.
Today, I claim the mantle.
I proudly and honestly come to you today as the Mr. Big of the default deniers.
We will not default on anything.
And moreover, it is more likely that the country's credit worthiness would go up around the world, since we would finally be doing something to address our out of control spending and indebtedness.
If we were not to raise the debt limit, we would be perceived around the world as serious for a change and responsible for a change.
Otherwise, we are headed for junk bond status.
And the only people who want that, junk bond status for U.S. debt rating are the people who seek to fundamentally transform this country as it was founded.
Keeping the debt ceiling will just force the government to finally do some real spending cuts.
The argument here is for keeping the debt ceiling where it is and not raising it.
We have enough revenue coming in from taxes to surface the debt.
That is why there will not be any default.
Even some in the regime before this latest playbook was employed, as recently as last week or the week before.
Let it slip that we can go on with barely a ripple through August or October, even without raising the debt limit.
The onus is on them.
This is the fourth or fifth time in four years, three years, that they have come to us, the American people, with this Armageddon apocalyptic crisis.
That if we don't act today, our lives as we know it are over.
Our country as we know it is over.
Our reputation, as it's known, is over.
The financial system of the world is over.
Everything's over unless we raise the debt limit.
And the truth is, not raising the debt limit is the single most intelligent, responsible thing we could do, particularly for Republicans who are seeking the White House on the basis of getting this out-of-control spending under control.
For Republicans who are telling us that they hear us on all of this debt and all the irresponsible spending, and it's time to start talking trillions instead of billions of real cuts, then why the hell would you raise the debt ceiling in the middle of all of that as an agenda?
You wouldn't.
You would keep the debt ceiling where it is and use that as a weapon to ensure against additional profligate, wasteful, irresponsible spending, which is what has been going on for way too long here.
And it does have a negative impact on the future of every American born, unborn, and not yet even conceived.
Now the politico, where this default denier story appears.
Carrie Boudolf Brown, the authorette.
Apparently the politico hasn't noticed that Europe and much of the world are slashing their budgets.
Apparently, there are a bunch of default deniers who have seen the light in Europe who understand they can't go on as they were.
They have discovered that Keynesian economics doesn't work unless destruction is the objective.
And these European countries, by the way, look at Canada.
These people are coming out of their recessions a lot faster than we are.
Maybe we should call them fiscal responsibility deniers.
You people politico, you are fiscal responsibility deniers.
Mr. Geitner, you and the members of your regime who are lying to your teeth again about this apocalyptic uh nature of this, this Armageddon we face.
We are not default deniers.
You are fiscal responsibility deniers.
Place down by 21 again, Paul Ryan.
He's exactly right.
We are mired in the whole concept of shared sacrifice.
No economic growth.
What ought to be on the table is discussions of shared prosperity.
Here again, Paul Ryan, the economic club of Chicago yesterday.
To an alarming degree, the budget debate has degenerated into a game of green eye shade arithmetic.
With many in Washington, including the president, demanding that we trade ephemeral spending restraints for large permanent tax increases.
I call this the shared scarcity mentality.
The missing ingredient, of course, is economic growth.
There's a piece in the stack here, Bruce Bartlett, who used to be a fan of this program.
And then something happened, and he's not a fan of this program.
It used to be an economist with ties to the Reagan administration.
I don't know what it was that he's not anymore.
But he's got a piece in the New York Times, the economics section explaining the science of everyday life.
He's run some numbers.
And essentially to cover Social Security and Medicare obligations.
Really cover them.
Meaning every obligation is met.
Every taxpayer in this country would have to pay a 61% rate.
In other words, whatever amount you paid on your federal income tax return this year would need to be 61% more now and forever to pay all the Social Security and Medicare benefits that have been promised over and above the payroll tax and what it generates.
Now this shouldn't come as a surprise.
This number exists in every federal budget as a potential future rate.
I've seen this rate as high as 78% in some budgets back in the in the 90s to cover future obligations.
This is where Ryan comes in.
This is why Ryan's Medicare proposal is important.
To cover every obligation.
Thank you.
On behalf of every recipient, every taxpayer, 61% more now and forever, than what your total federal income tax was last year.
Now, what are the um politics of that?
What's the likelihood that that's going to happen?
Well, what Ryan is saying is this is what the regime is aiming at.
This is what they want.
Shared decline, shared sacrifice, the end of prosperity.
That is what Obama's all about and the Democrat Party.
That's why it's silly to in any way make statement that undercuts what Ryan is trying to do.
Quick time if you're a Republican.
Back with more right after this.
And to the phones we go.
Kick it off for the first time today in uh at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
This is uh Reed.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I heard uh several occasions you mentioned uh Torobora in We Turned to 6,000 degrees, and I was actually there for that.
You were there.
Well, I I had been told, I've been getting trouble for this, but I've been told that uh there were photos of bin Laden on horseback at Torabora ten minutes prior to you turning the place.
Well, actually, that that's a uh I think they've mixed up a couple of days.
We were there a couple of days prior to that when they uh we were working with a cowboy grandfact that uh as a matter of fact had mentioned he'd seen um what they thought was Osama leading troops, and uh we had a uh we were assigned to Obama we had a weapons malfunction that kept us from uh putting the weapons on the target.
So I think that's the day that he escaped.
A couple of days later when they brought in the C-130 and uh dropped that uh fuel air explosive.
I think that's what you were referring to.
That's right.
And then we we followed up.
There was uh three of us.
We were I'm a B-52 pilot, and uh we followed up with three of us dropping uh Mark 82s, full loads of Mark 82.
You fly the buff.
Yeah uh recently retired.
Uh I'm up at Edwards now as a test pilot but uh that was back in uh I think early December.
Yeah.
And uh the reason I called was uh we used to have to fly up uh from where we were stationed in order to as you know Afghanistan is landlocked and we'd have to fly through Pakistan to get to uh Afghanistan.
At what altitude are you flying the buff?
Oh, well, we would operate in the lower 40s and then sometimes around 45.
Do they have anything that could hit you at that altitude?
Certainly not the Afghanis.
There was all sorts of talk of them climbing to the tops of those big mountains and taking pot shots at us with shoulder launch, but we didn't believe that.
The big issue, the reason I called was early on as we started to prosecute the war, we were,
were one of the first units to respond after nine eleven and uh shortly uh after that when we started the war we'd drive up uh what they called the driveway through Pakistan and uh the it was uh an agreed route that the host country would would have us fly up and they took us over a couple of the cities in in South Pakistan well little bastards would would bang away at us with triple A as we fly over the cities I've got my time is drilling are you saying that the Pakistanis been firing on us for a while now?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
From the very beginning.
They told us it was rogue elements in the military.
But they shot us with heavy triple A over some of their southern towns until they had to change the driveway to avoid the city.
Interesting.
Interesting.
All right.
Look at Reed.
I'm honored.
Have you in the audience?
I'm honored that you called.
Proves the ineffectiveness of the haughty John Kerry even more.
OK, let's review my last caller, the buff driver.
What they call the B-52.
Pakistan has been shooting at our planes, flying over their country for years.
Nevertheless, we have given them 20 billion dollars in aid over the last 10 years.
And people like the haughty John Kerry say we should give them more.
Now, this.
This is the kind of stuff the average citizen sees and just it makes it makes no sense.
This is what leads people to think.
That whatever they hear, whatever they hear reported about something, is this all lies?
Pakistan, an ally, shooting at us.
We give them money.
They turn around and use some of that money to shoot at us.
We're told, well, Russia, they got to play a double game there.
I mean, they got nukes.
They got to fend off the Taliban in their country.
they got a fend off al Qaeda yeah while they're obviously protecting bin Laden St. Louis hello John glad you waited you're next on the EIB network hi.
Those from St. Louis Rush Rushy Yeah great to have you here I want to make a quick comment about Arnold Schwarzenegger and if possible a quick comment about Bachman Palin.
Schwarzenegger I cannot believe that men who have money do not have the brains to use a condom wait a minute now what is what is having money well that you got to do with the brains to use a condom that you could afford to buy one.
Oh come on anybody can afford a condom Russie I work at Walmart and we have a beautiful display I have seen young women buying condoms that's my point they're sold at Walmart.
You don't need to be a rich guy to be able to afford a condom so but you your question had to do with how come rich guys like Schwarzenegger don't use condoms when they can easily afford them.
No excuse well things to be curious about in this episode.
Russie?
Yep.
Russie, I think Bachman Palin would be a dream ticket.
Yeah.
Have either one of them bought a condom at your Walmart.
Not not mine, Russie.
All right.
So the question, why didn't why didn't Schwarzenegger use a condom?
Isn't the answer to this obvious?
Edwards didn't use a condom either.
Um obviously it didn't use a condom.
Why uh isn't the answer to that obvious?
I I uh I don't know.
I I don't I don't understand the question.
Um no, I don't think I'm gonna take the occasion to educate people on why these guys don't use uh condoms, but I don't think it has an to do with whether or not they can afford them.
Obviously not if they are for sale at uh at Walmart.
You know, before this is all said and done, you mark my words.
Before this is all said and done, the news media is gonna end up being mad at the housekeeper for not getting an abortion.
If if she'd have just got an abortion, we wouldn't be here today.
Schwarzenegger marriage and be happy as it could be, and on and on.
Carolyn in Fort Lauderdale, hi, welcome to the EIB network.
Wonderful to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Wow, tremendous, tremendous honor.
Um, I have a sad but funny story about uh Michelle Obama's healthy choices plan for kids.
Do you remember this where they were gonna send fresh fruit and vegetables to the kids in the school?
Yeah, yeah.
So my sister-in-law teaches at a local elementary school down here, and she has been coming with these stories for the last year about the stuff that they get.
They're not giving these kids bananas and strawberries.
Last week they gave them raw beets, raw beets.
They've given them raw tomatoes, raw asparagus, and all of this stuff ends up the teachers don't even hand it out anymore half the time.
They just throw it directly into the garbage.
So when they got the raw tomatoes, my sister-in-law went around to the teachers and collected the ones she didn't want.
She made like three months of spaghetti sauce with them, because it just gets chucked into the garbage.
Uh you gotta be kidding me.
No, I'm not.
Your sister-in-law collected unused raw vegetables and turned it into three months of spaghetti sauce?
Well, I'm exaggerating the three months, but yeah, she went around just like because the teachers are throwing these tomatoes away.
The kids don't want to eat a raw tomato.
Who eats a raw tomato?
So she took them home and made spaghetti sauce.
Well uh compliments of Michelle.
Yeah, I know.
It's this is this is Lunaticville.
I mean, this is nuts.
Oh, don't get a healthy food stuff.
I know they're food deserts, but Michelle Obama demanding this this we give it away healthy food stuff.
I guess you couple this with the um revelation we had today that they're gonna start awarding schools for how well they teach environmental behavior.
Education department working on that.
I th these people, folks, I I I I swear, they the liberals, Democrats, um this is it's just this is ridiculous and absurd.
The ideas the ha these people have, uh things that they think are serious, and that uh and that matter.
Why not why not just take the kids out at recess and let them graze?
Like we do the cows for crying out loud.
Ron in Memphis.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush.
How are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Great.
Yesterday, uh Obama was in Memphis speaking at uh inner city school, uh school that won a contest to speak at their commencement exercise.
Yeah, I remember that.
And for the most part, it was a good speech, you know, war card, steady guard, all that kind of stuff.
But then he had a quote that uh it just stunned me.
He said, used to be that you didn't have to have an education.
If you were willing to work hard, you could go to a factory somewhere and get a job.
Those days are past in America.
I I just uh I was stunned.
It's like, are we not gonna have any manufacturing anymore?
I know that they've tried to eliminate manufacturing in the United States, but is it officially over now, according to Obama?
Where are you getting that?
That's a direct direct quote from his speech yesterday to the school.
Well what he's how is wait a minute, I must not be hearing you right.
How is getting an education equivalent to not having manufacturing jobs?
He said in the old days, you used to be able to go down if you didn't have an education and were willing to work hard, you can go to a factory and get a job.
He said now those days are over.
But now wait, wait just a second.
That's not entirely wrong.
I mean, depending on how far back you want to go the old days, but that's that's not entirely wrong.
There were things called apprenticeships where where your schooling essentially was working at the feet of a master learning a trade.
Um that's that's not that's not altogether untrue.
Well, what I'm you know, I'm what confuses me here is that Obama usually they usually Obamas both usually tell people to forget about working and go to work in the government.
They they generally say, don't go to corporate America, don't go get jobs, stay in the service industry, stay here in your little town and help other people.
That's what they normally say.
That's what they both said during the uh 2008 presidential campaign, and Muchell particularly was in some Ohio town, and and she was telling people there don't aspire to go work for some big corporation, don't pursue the big money.
But yeah, it's it's not altogether untrue that in the old days, if you didn't have an education, you could still get a job at a factory and pay a whole lot, but it was it was uh it was true.
I don't know that that's what he was advocating.
Uh I I haven't I didn't hear the whole speech, so I don't really have the context entirely of what you're commenting on.
I really should have that in front of me to be better equipped to uh respond to what you're saying.
I appreciate the call, a brief timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
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From the uh New York Times, members of the House are back home in their districts this week, and in the case of some Republicans protesters are along for the ride.
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee has 20 Republican-held congressional districts in its sites this week.
They're hitting voters with automated phone calls denouncing the House Republican plan to revamp Medicare.
They are arming those who want them with signs to pro in other words, what they're trying to do, Democrats are trying to recreate the genuine Tea Party town halls of two years ago.
Even of last year, actually, 2010.
They're trying to recreate town halls against Tea Party candidates.
Calling a Tea Party Town Hall summer, and the media is helping to get the word out.
That is the point of this story.
A website sponsored by the campaign committee, Democrat Campaign Committee lists town hall meetings scheduled to be held by Republicans, mostly freshmen, during this week.
The group encourages voters, the Democrats are encouraging voters to show up, as many did during the Easter recess to protest or ask pointed questions.
So the Democrats are trying to recreate what was total grassroots spontaneity.
It's how the Tea Party formed, entirely spontaneous.
The Democrats are trying to create it, make it look spontaneous, using the New York Times and other media to get the word out on where to go, what kind of signs to make, what to put on the signs, What kind of questions to ask?
And according to the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, the big question for the week are Americans just waking up to the Medicare debate and therefore more prone to engage on both sides of the issue at town halls than during the spring recess.
Democrats are refusing to hold town halls.
They're afraid to answer legitimate questions about their plan to empower unelected bureaucrats to cut Medicare and endanger seniors' access to treatment.
Democrats are not doing town halls.
They do not want town party Tea Party people showing up.
Instead, they are arming their soldiers, if you will, with ammunition to head out to Republican freshman town hall meetings.
And of course, state control media cameras will be there.
And you will see on all the cable news broadcasts what will be said to be spontaneous eruptions of citizens.
Upset at Tea Party freshmen, upset at Republican members of Congress, demanding explanations on Paul Ryan's Medicare plans.
Not genuine, not real.
That sentiment does not exist.
In fact, most of the polling data shows that people over the age of 55 support the Ryan plan in droves.
So once again, counter-truth, counter-reality.
Create something that doesn't exist, try to make it look real, put it on television as real, for the express purpose of dispiriting those of you who watch these reports.
Make it look like the elections last November don't mean anything.
That the public mood back then has already changed, trying to create the the impression in your mind that now that the public has seen what that election has wrought, they don't want any part of it.
That's the whole purpose of this.
So just remember when you see video reports of these fake, phony, drummed up town halls.
Don't fall for it.
The whole point of this is to dispirit you and make you think the American people no longer think the way they did when they voted in November, no longer oppose Obama, no longer oppose profligate spending.
They don't care anymore.
They are for more spending.
They don't want any reforms to Medicare.
That's what's going on.
and the media are willing accomplices in this.
Modesto, California, next.
Hi, Len, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you here.
Rush, glad to talk with you.
I've been listening to you for many, many years.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, on uh Newt Ingrid, you know, uh they took the Ryan Bill in the Senate and shelved it, you know, and I don't think they're going to get to it and discuss it in any way.
And there's a lot of things in that bill that's really, really, really good.
But if you listen to MS and MBC and some of these other stations, they're cutting themselves pretty bad on disassembling uh uh uh um uh Medicare.
And I think Nuke is just taking a bigger picture, a more micromanagement of it.
In other words, uh he's look he's looking to get beyond just Republicans.
I think he's looking for independents and Democrats and everyone else, you know.
So I think he's taking a good stand on it, you know.
Okay, that's that's another way of just uh uh articulating my theory that he's trying to take the moderate view.
He sees a niche opening there that the conservatives have that side lockdown on this.
He's seeking the approval of Democrats, he's seeking the approval of moderates, he's seeking the approval of the media.
He knows full well that the way you get the media on your side is to rip conservatives.
He's senior cane pull that off.
Yeah, yeah.
And uh, but that's not how you win a Republican primary.
That just is not how you win a Republican Republican primary voters do not reward that.
That's true.
You're true, you know, you're right there.
No.
Uh you're right there.
So then what's Newt actually doing if he knows that and you know that and I know that, what's he actually doing?
Well, I think there's more to come, you know what I'm saying?
Uh but uh, you know, for for a very smart man that he is, you know, uh he's I think he's out there uh, you know, with the right things that he's saying.
All right, well, we'll see.
We'll see.
And you also rush.
Well, I'm just I'm just a guy on the radio here.
I I uh I have the luxury of merely theorizing and commenting on it.
I mean, I'm not I'm not uh I'm not running anything.
I mean, you you look at any number of ways to to describe uh what what Newt's doing here, playing to the bookers at MSNBC and CBS.
But my theory, again, if you missed it, too bad.
But it it really depends on Newt expecting not to win this.
If he really is in this to win, and my theory is full of it.
My theory is irrelevant.
My theory is based on the fact that I believe Newt looks at and says he can't win.
But he wants big things as a result of trying.
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
And of course, this is all theoretical, that one of the things he might be angling for is a full-time position on the board at the Aspen Institute.
I mean, everybody likes to go to Aspen.
They have a lot of intellectual meetings, uh conversations out there, seminars and stuff.
He's spoken, in fact, at the Aspen Institute.
It's run by Walter Isaacson, who used to run Time magazine and CNN.
And one of the speeches he gave Aspen, he called the war in Iraq silly.
I'll I'll go back, I'll get the text of it, share with you some excerpts of what he said during that speech at the Aspen Institute, because it all it all fits in with my uh with my theory.
I gotta take a break, however, right now.
We'll do that and be back before you know it.
Don't go away.
Another exciting hour of broadcast excellence in the can.
Apparently, a lot of emails, I uh uh misunderstood this caller from Memphis about education and manufacturing jobs.
And if I did, it's simply because I didn't hear the guy.
Um it was a bad phone line, and that's that's if I misunderstood it's simply uh because of my being deaf.
Let me review it here, we'll talk about it, we come back.
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